Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Feigenspan (Pride of the Nation) saltwater fish (TIME, Sept. 20) were getting smaller and smaller, Fitger's (He-Man's Nordlager-Naturally Better) fresh-water fish were growing bigger and bigger, as disclosed by 14-weeks' contest conducted throughout States of Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin and Michigan...
GEORGE H. BRADLEY Judge of Contest Fitger Brewing...
Sick & tired of J. Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin's threats to contest the election which dropped him out of his comfortable U. S. Senate seat in 1930, an Alabama legislator named Coates rose in Montgomery in 1931, declared: "No man in Alabama during the last quarter of a century has received greater gifts within the range of the electorate of this State than has J. Thomas Heflin...
...idea of professional football he may have carried three the years from one afternoon when, aged 19, he received $1000 playing in a touch contest between Latroha and Jeanectte. Professional football has grown beyond his expectations in larger cities. The better to be the center of this growth, March founded the American pro league last year. He hope see a griditon world series some day--the established National League versus the stery American...
...usual Jaakko's troubles can be laid partly to last June's graduation, for it took the two point-winners of the last contest. The 1936 November run over the hilly course at New Haven was won by Yale's Captain Wilbur T. Woodland. In third place came Hayden Channing '37, and Henry Marcy '37. With these two men gone, there remain a handful of hopefuls, but no winning performers. Captain for this year is John W. Erhard of Boston. Erhard ran very well against Yale last year, and showed deserved improvement by his third place in the mile race...